Giant Bombcast 04/29/2014

*cough* Kirby's Dreamland was the first one... *cough cough*

MISTRIAL!

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The thing about the Xbone, performance and available power will get a lot better, tricks will get figured out, code will evolve and 1080p will no longer become such a difficult thing despite those 32 megs of esRAM being 16 megs too small to painlessly enable 1080p, but it will still be worse than PS3-360 multiplat differences (and reviewers should start marking down Xbone versions like they did with PS3 versions). If you want 343Halo Forza Gears there is only one choice of a current-generation console.

- Things told to everyone wondering what to get and worrying about the future, and if you want Japanese games you want PS4 and looking for a $99 WiiU deal

Attorney @vinny was goddamn amazing!

Also let it be known that inverted Y-axis is the NATURAL way. It is how your head works.

You PULL to look up.

Inverted X-axis is for war criminals though.

A fork!

I remember the 100 prick allergy test. It sucked. I was allergic to literally everything. I was itching like I will never itch again and they didn't allow me to scratch. That shit is a horror story.

man hack n slash sounds so much like Robot Odyssey that it's both amazing and entirely frightening.

e: SPOKE TOO SOON jeff actually mentions its prequel! he seemed genuinely stoked.

Ah....its been awhile since I have heard excitement about forks.

::bomb-ass space flute solo plays::

As a med student I love medical talk on the bombcast!

What's the deal with ceiling fans?

"What a fucking nightmare game." Perfect box quote for the next Animal Crossing.

Fan death

Listening to @vinny go off about Animal Crossing almost made me question why I've still been playing everyday for nearly a year. Almost.

"If you don't want to serve 20 to Life on NeoGaf then shut the fuck up and let me handle this."

Classic. I demand a T-Shirt!

Maaan, I'd watch you guys if you were on television. Bring back Triviabot and replace Secretariat with Luchadeer, and you'd potentially be the Craig Ferguson of "video games."

I wish I could get an mp3 of the music that they use for the "small business man" skits lately.

sweet bombification

@hollitz: thank you sir, I would never have guessed

He had to answer a call on his bluetooth headset, he'll get back to you.

I'm pretty sure I saw him at the Post Office last week.

Yeah I was confused too. I'm 95% sure we've been able to click open individual doors for a long time. Trying to deal with fires would be a nightmare otherwise.

I'm assuming he knew this and just the phrasing was odd.

In the Ipad version you have to click on the door control system before you can start opening doors, and that's literally all you can do until you click back out of it.

Jeff was ON POINT today. Fuck the police, drink Diet Pepsi, yo. On the opposite side, it's like Brad just discovered the whole, "The Real Dark Souls Starts Here," thing...

Also, Vinny's take on Animal Crossing was the best!

@xcharliesheen: Thanks for a totally pointless and incorrect complaint! Really added a lot to the comment section, see you next week

i like to think he's like Bret in Flight of the Conchords where he has a bluetooth but no phone.

Man, it can get really trying listening to Jeff bitch about Nintendo all the time. I don't think there is anything they could do to make him happy with them. Oh wait, thats right, an Urban Champion 2 would; because that's a good idea.

My girlfriend plays both X and Y inverted. It's pretty weird but that's what felt natural to her in Uncharted.

Craig Ferguson never wanted Letterman's spot. He said he just wants to end it before he gets tired of doing it. Love his show and I am really gonna miss it!

Stamps.com! probably not illegal! Inverted X-axis should be illegal though.

I don't think his sentiment of "make new stuff don't just put out Mario Kart 12 and Zelda 13" is that outlandish. They created these wonderful series that many have enjoyed over the years, and bless them for it, but I think it's time for some new blood on the roster.

Little known fact: Don Mattrick left Microsoft last year because he came in dead last in the E3 Dick Waving Competition.

I've always toyed with the idea of diving into Animal Crossing, but I'm quite afraid of having the same experience as Vinny.

I loved Harvest Moon though, so maybe I'm the right kind of person to play it.

The "Star Fox-alike" for 3DO is Starfighter 3000

I remember this being a "cover demo" for an issue of PC Gamer when they came with demo CDs. I played the demo and remember it being terrible. It was released on PC after Terminal Velocity, which is a far, far better game.

Hell Yeah! Rocky's Boots talk! That's where I learnt logic and stuff!

I used to play with inverted Y, which I assume is a result of my first 3D games being PC flight sims. I deliberately switched to non-inverted a couple of years ago, as it's kind of a pain to have a non-standard (and sometimes non-supported) control preference. I was playing Final Fantasy XIII, and figured an 80-hour JRPG with almost no action component was a really good opportunity to power through the muscle memory.

In a lot of ways, I still think inverted controls are more natural in a third-person context -- and there's a reason most early third-person games had "inverted" controls. Think about Super Mario 64 -- you're controlling Lakitu with the C buttons, and if you want to look to the right, Lakitu has to move to the left. Pressing left to move left is, technically speaking, inverted in that case. (Of course, things get weird if we're talking about a third-person shooter like Ratchet & Clank.)

The only reason I decided to switch is that I wanted to pick a single control paradigm, and I figured that I should pick the most supported one. It's what made sense for me, but I don't think it's the One True Way.

I don't understand the hostility toward inverting axes. It's trivial for games to support it (they're just multiplying the input by -1, right?), and there's a significant contingent of people (i.e. most of Japan, I think?) used to inverted axes. At the risk of sounding like that guy, it's pretty insensitive to act like anyone inverting X is crazy when control preference is so based on what you grew up playing (and maybe more importantly, not playing). If first-person shooters never got popular in the west, I suspect our definition of "inverted" might be the opposite.

What a coincidence. I also happen to be listing Brad's Adventure to some weed smoke out. Small world......small world....

@humanity: I definitely agree, although it should also be noted that Jeff has identified as more of a Sega than a Nintendo guy so he also doesn't have the same deep seated admiration for Nintendo that many do. Of course that crowd obviously isn't paying Nintendo's bills...

I don't like inverted controls but I drive a forklift at work most days for the past year and a half and yeah, up/down, tilt back/forward, sideshift left/right are all reverse on the controls for what actually happens on the lift. It's completely natural for me and I've never had a problem with that with anything else but I DO have problems if I drive a lot in a week and I forget how to properly turn a car(forklifts pivot on back wheels not turn on front) because I could drive the lift 10-15 hours in a week and my car like 2 hours.

The trials and tribulations of Vinny trying to play Animal Crossing made me laugh.

All I can say is that if you put in the time, AC pays off. At least it did for me. I still find myself visiting my town from time to time.

i'm a Chilean from Chile born in the Chilean territory and I can assure you guys that Zmart is a fucking joke. just look at this. http://www.zmart.cl/scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=12964.

@vortextk:

imagining trying to turn a car based on a back-wheel pivot sounds pretty hilarious to be honest :) having driven swathers that pivot on front wheels, the turning can get pretty entertaining

are the controls on a forklift based on dual joysticks? I am curious as to how that works. guessing it works something like a skid steer, with one stick for lift control and one for moving the entire vehicle?

So I haven't listened in almost 2 months, so as not to hear anything about Dark Souls 2, because as we all know Brad has no filter and a huge double standard when it comes to spoiling unknown or unexpected aspects of games.

Tune back in this week, Brad blurts out GREAT GREY WOLF SIF with no warning whatsoever.

I throw my headphones on my desk, my office freaks out. THANKS BRAD! I knew I could count on Shoemaker...

@brendan: I've never been a Nintendo guy either. I played exactly one Zelda and it was on the old brick Gameboy. It was neat but I got lost and put it away in order to play Kirby instead which I loved. So for me it's always been king of bizarre to see a lot of people get really excited for another Mario Kart or another Zelda, again and again. I liked Gears of War but I was kind of over it by the third installment.

@kbohls: Nintendo are completely directionless and confused as a company right now. They're still struggling with things like cohesive unified accounts and HD development in 2014. Meanwhile Iwata wants to dive into the non-wearable (?) QoL market.

Jeff not being happy with them isn't surprising. A lot of people aren't. Even those like myself who see them as an immensely talented and innovative company.

He was talking about Dark Souls ONE...

Could anyone list the taquerias they were talking about? I'm going to San Fran in about 2 months and have never been to a taqueria, which is probably why I feel so angry all the time. Urrrgh.

Oh dear, Jeff "cant handle" the Dark Souls talk hahahaha, to be honest id rather hear about that than how bad game is bad... URRRGGGGGGGHHHH... I come here because Im a FAN of games!